Item - 2024.PH15.2

The Planning and Housing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council enact the Zoning By-law amendments substantially in accordance with Attachment 1 to the report (September 4, 2024) from the Interim Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning.

2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the Zoning By-law amendments as may be required.

The Planning and Housing Committee held a public meeting on September 26, 2024, and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.

On an ongoing basis, the City rectifies technical errors to the text and mapping of Zoning By-law 569-2013.

This report proposes technical amendments to Zoning By-law 569-2013 to correct cross references and typographical errors. Technical amendments are proposed to clarify an outdoor patio may be combined with an eating establishment in the open space golf course and marina zones. In response to a zoning enquiry by the owner of 244 Virginia Avenue, the lands are added to Zoning By-law 569-2013 to confirm its residential zoning.

For By-law 1154-2023 relating to outdoor patios located on private property that prevail over the former municipal zoning by-laws, a typographical error is corrected by separating a regulation into two regulations.

On May 22, 2024, City Council adopted By-law 499-2024 to amend the Municipal Code Chapter 415, Development of Land, and Chapter 169, City Officials, to delegate authority to approve technical amendments to Zoning By-law 569-2013 to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning or their designate, as identified in Section 5.1.10 of the Official Plan. A process to implement delegated authority is currently underway but is not yet in place.

All proposed revisions are in keeping with Council's intentions when first approved by Council, and do not affect the substance of the by-laws.